Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India

ISBN-13: 9780521465489 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 206 str.

Norbert Peabody; Christopher Alan Bayly; Rajnarayan Chandavarkar

Opis

Norbert Peabody analyzes changes to the foundations of royal power in the Rajasthani kingdom of Kota during the late precolonial and early colonial eras. Peabody charts these changes in relation to broader socio-economic transformations within the larger royal polity. He concludes that different societies not only establish different co-ordinates of value in their constructions of the past, but also that the very processes of social and political transformation differ from society to society.

Recenzje

'It is hard to imagine any ethnographer of the villages, temple towns, and former royal capitals of the subcontinent who will not find that their experience resonated with some aspect or other of Peabody's account.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Spis treści

1. The King is dead, long live the King!: or Karmic Kin(g)ship in Kota; 2. In whose turban does the Lord reside?: Kings, Saints, and merchants in Western India; 3. Military fiscalism and the cultural economy of devotion in eighteenth century Rajasthan; 4. From 'Royal Service' to 'maternal devotion' during the Jhala Regency: local politics at the end of the Old Regime; 5. An incidental history of a supplementary article: Hindu Kin(g)ship and early Colonial rule.